Question

I am thinking of a new page to be made, and it'd be called the members page.

Answer 1

\(\cdot\) This page will have a search by username option on top, and below that, it'd have 50 members in order of SmartScore(maybe?).

\(\cdot\) On the bottom of the page it'd have two buttons - "See 25 more" and "See 25 less" or something like that.

\(\cdot \) The URL of the page can be named http://openstudy.com/members

Answer 2

Yeah ..... it might be useful to compare ourselves with other members on the site.

Answer 3

lol no comparison, but it would be good for the members' list and search that we need.

Answer 4

Farm must be posting about the server pressure right? ;)

Answer 5

My take:

There are a handful of technical issues here. The first of which is obviously performance. We have a pretty big list of members. Retrieving data for all of those on one page would certainly bring the site the a grinding halt. Even if we did a scrolling autoload, I suspect it would be fairly easy to stress the server.

Second, I don't see any benefit that would make getting around those technical hurtles worthwhile. Unless we see a huge potential benefit, I suspect we won't be doing this.

Answer 6

Well but as I said, 50 members on one page.

Answer 7

And as I said, "Even if we did a scrolling autoload, I suspect it would be fairly easy to stress the server." :P

Answer 8

lol I bumped my post again xD

Answer 9

lol okay

Answer 10

That said, I still don't understand what need this would meet.

Answer 11

The search feature..

Answer 12

lol and another thing - we sorta make a list of 99's and the users who are on top so I want more info on my research ;)

Sat > Amistre > Saif > Merts(not sure about merts as the fourth one) and so on...
I want to see the positions.
;D

Answer 13

Like list of people with highest SS? LIke a top 50 list?

Answer 14

Yeah, we can make that.

Answer 15

That'd be cool. LIke different stats we can see who has highest in. Maybe another about who has most fans, etc.

Answer 16

Or a page like the hall of fame where it features the 90+ in order

Answer 17

That'd be cool

Answer 18

A "search for members" feature would be useful if you're searching by username, but I don't understand why that would also require the ability to just page through a list of all members. (Which seems to be what you described.) However, doing a search based on username wouldn't be a huge ordeal since there is an index on those, and I believe that's just an iteration of the index.

We used to have a leader board, and we may have one again. We've talked about it. We're just working on other things that are a little bit less game like at the moment and things that are a bit more unique. But if we get enough requests for it, we may bring it back. Maybe. ;)

Answer 19

lol. Sign a petition!